This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.